Daniel Cossins

Features writer @newscientist

[Helen Thomson @hvthomson]

**Job alert** We are looking for a new features editor @newscientist. Come join the best science journalism team in town! https://t.co/plkrEBmfgD #jobs

[Daniel Cossins @danielcossins]

Hi @Emma_Marris. I'm trying to get a proof over to you in the absence of my colleague Kate Douglas but I don't seem to have the right email address. Could you please drop me a line asap: [email protected]? Thanks

[Daniel Cossins @danielcossins]

@TomChivers @oliverburkeman Sorry to intrude but I'm intrigued by this. My "mind's eye" is foggy at best. But as you say, some people have extremely vivid mental imagery. Turns out researchers call it "hyperphantasia" and have at least begun to study it: https://t.co/He6rp43r8A

[Daniel Cossins @danielcossins]

Hey @TheTiffinTin. The discount code you posted on Twitter 4 hours ago doesn't work and the staff at the Wanstead branch said they can't honour it over the phone.

[Daniel Cossins @danielcossins]

@centralline are there trains running normally eastbound from Holborn?

[Daniel Cossins @danielcossins]

Great primer on how absorption spectra can tell us about exoplanet atmospheres from @DrJoVian @newscilive #NSLive2019.

[Daniel Cossins @danielcossins]

Final act on the Cosmos stage @newscilive today is planetary scientist @DrJoVian with a guide to finding and characterising exoplanets. #NSLive2019

[Daniel Cossins @danielcossins]

@newscilive What a brilliant speaker! And still time get over to the Space Shed @newscilive to quiz Vlatko Vedral about all things quantum. He'll be taking questions from 4:15pm #NSLive2019

[Daniel Cossins @danielcossins]

What is the biggest object that can be in a superposition of states? We're only a couple of years away from being able to put a virus through the double-slit experiment, says Vlatko Vedral @newscilive #NSLive2019

[Daniel Cossins @danielcossins]

Vlatko Vedral not holding back here @newscilive. Now he's diving right into the question of what collapses the wave function...

[Daniel Cossins @danielcossins]

Another packed house here on the Cosmos stage @newscilive, where Vlatko Vedral is explaining why it's so hard to come up with a quantum theory of gravity, and how we might crack it in the end. People lapping up the mind-bending physics! #NSLive2019

[Daniel Cossins @danielcossins]

As for Wally Funk, now in her 80s, she is still fighting to go to space. She's now got her ticket with Virgin Galactic. What a woman! @ScienceNelson #NSLive2019

[Daniel Cossins @danielcossins]

Unfazed by the rank discrimination facing female astronauts in the '60s, Wally Funk, having done all the relevant training, kept badgering NASA. Eventually they relented, letting women into the astronaut corp. @ScienceNelson #NSLive2019

[Daniel Cossins @danielcossins]

Still today though, female astronauts are constantly asked about their appearance rather than their training or expertise. @ScienceNelson #NSLive2019

[Daniel Cossins @danielcossins]

The first female astronauts had to deal with some ridiculously sexist news coverage, says @ScienceNelson. She wasn't even blonde! #NSLive2019

[Daniel Cossins @danielcossins]

Now we've got the wonderful @ScienceNelson talking about women in space and the amazing story of Wally Funk. #NSLive2019

[Daniel Cossins @danielcossins]

@Cosmic_Horizons He's very convincing. But hang on, what if @Cosmic_Horizons is himself an alien emissary sent to put us off the trail. Rumbled!? #NSLive2019

[Daniel Cossins @danielcossins]

"There doesn't appear to be a civilisation out there harnessing starlight" as we might expect from intelligent aliens, says @Cosmic_Horizons. #NSLive2019

[Daniel Cossins @danielcossins]

Nope, says @Cosmic_Horizons: "we are probably alone". #NSLive2019